Using Young Adult Realistic Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers: Something New, Tried and True, and Recommended Nonfiction (Young Adult Literature).

Kaywell, Joan F.

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ERIC Number: EJ556664

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Using Young Adult Realistic Literature to Help Troubled Teenagers: Something New, Tried and True, and Recommended Nonfiction (Young Adult Literature).

Kaywell, Joan F.

English Journal, v86 n5 p91-95 Sep 1997

Describes a seven-step process that uses young adult literature to help teenagers understand and deal with their troubles. Offers brief annotations of five young adult titles in each of nine areas: alienation and identity; divorce; dropouts, delinquency, and gangs; poverty; teenage pregnancy; abused children; alcohol and drugs; homosexuality; and stress and suicide. (SR)

Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Alienation, Child Abuse, Coping, Divorce, Dropouts, Emotional Problems, Homosexuality, Nonfiction, Poverty, Reading Material Selection, Reading Materials, Secondary Education, Substance Abuse, Suicide, Unwed Mothers

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reference Materials - Bibliographies

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Language: English

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